LIKE PAST LEGENDS - ASIWAJU SHINES BRIGHTEST IN ADVERSITY
The stories of the greatest of men were not written in smiles and grins but in the crucible of their darkest hours. Legends aren’t forged in armchairs of comfort and cushions of calm, but in the fiery furnaces of unpredictable danger, unpleasant confrontations, and uncomfortable situations…
David carved his name not while lying on his back in green pastures, but by wrestling a bear, slaying a lion, and standing triumphant over a towering Goliath.
Joseph didn’t rise to legend by lounging in slumber and building empires in dreams, but by enduring the bitterness of prison, conquering the battle of lust, and navigating economic famine with divine precision.
Even Jesus the Christ - born of divinity and heavenly royalty - did not claim glory on a silver platter. Whips and lashes rained upon His back, mockery and scorn descended upon His dignity, pain and suffering embraced the Messiah for a minimum of six agonizing hours on the cross before He finally surrendered life into eternal glory…
In conclusion, Asiwaju - the greatest Nigerian leader of the 4th Republic (to be modest) - was never designed to build legacy on the fragile foundations of comfort and laxity… No, Sir. It is in the most dangerous times, the precariously unfortunate moments of history, and the harshest slices of lived reality that the Genius of Akanbi shines the brightest, his wisdom cuts the deepest, and his legacy stands the firmest…
I am the LEGENDARY-J.O.E, and my duty is simple: to consistently assure the rudderless opposition and enemies of Nigeria’s sustained progress that even if you gather the Devil and the entire host of hell to endorse your mediocre candidate - offering a flicker of hope to your serial failures masquerading as leaders - failure remains your destined lot and defeat your ordained fate…
Asiwaju has never enjoyed an easy reign in his political odyssey -
Not as a Senator when he stood toe-to-toe with the Generals; not as a democracy activist staring down the barrel of Dictatorship, surviving assassination attempts and outwitting his hunters into exile;
Not as Governor of Lagos State, when a collapsing former capital met the Midas touch of Asiwaju and rose from fiscal and physical ruin; not as an opposition leader, where he confronted the lavishly oiled rigging machinery of the then–ruling PDP and still peeled state after state from the grip of the Behemoth;
Not as a Presidential Candidate of the ruling party, where even his own party’s support was a gamble, where the twin demons of fuel and cash scarcity reared their heads - yet Baba prevailed over every snare laid before him, unlike the Agulu kitten who could not even muster the courage to submit himself to a credible primary;
And certainly not as President, where he has embarked on the most sensitive, most avoided, and boldest reforms - the very ones past leaders sidestepped to protect their popularity. He dared the odds, damned the consequences, and eventually turned the corner…
So for a man so familiar with adversity and rude confrontations, not even the rantings of a madman from yonder can ruffle a leader with clear vision and lion-hearted courage - one whose greatness is shielded by the Host of Heaven.
This too shall pass…
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APC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES - I AM NOT SATISFIED
2026
APC Presidential Primary results
Bola Tinubu = 10,999,162 votes
Stanley Osifo = 16,503 votes
2018
Muhammadu Buhari - 14,842,072
General Elections - 15,191,847.
So before the opposition begins to open its mouth and cry rigging - let it first sit down and learn. APC is a party seasoned in the furnace of democratic contest. Our culture of robust internal democracy has never been in doubt. That is a doctrine the opposition, fractured and fumbling, has yet to learn.
But let the celebration be brief. For a man who knows where he is going does not sit down to admire the road.
If 2018 is the pattern - and patterns, like proverbs, do not lie - then the votes attracted at a general election tend to mirror, with eerie faithfulness, what was gathered at the primaries. Buhari pulled 14.8 million in the primaries. He pulled 15.1 million at the poll. The margin of difference was negligible.
Now Asiwaju has 10,999,162 from the primaries. And while none of the heavily fragmented, ideologically homeless, and perpetually bickering opposition parties can dream of fifty percent of that number in the general elections - there is still work to be done.
I do not seek a mere victory. I crave a rout - overwhelming, incontestable, undebatable. The kind that silences the room before the last ballot is counted.
11 million votes in a general election is enough. Enough to win. But "enough to win" is not enough for me. I want a minimum of 15 million votes - so that the combined arithmetic of every baby politician on that ballot will not be sufficient to close the margin, scratch the lead, or feed the narrative..
Let there be no argument. Let there be no court case. Let the numbers speak so loudly that even the deaf concede.
We must not give the opposition even the consolation of a close count.
I will play my part.
Will you?
Good Evening, Severally.